It is estimated that approximately half of the species alive on Earth today will become extinct within the next 75 years and around 10,000 species/subspecies are presumed extinct every year . This is due to human impacts such as industrialization/urbanization in one’s habitat and hunting; the extinction can also be a result of the animals incapability of surviving in a given location, ,and or an increase of one’s predator population .By definition an animal goes extinct when the last member of its species dies.From the beginning of Earth’s existence species of all shapes and sizes have walked the Earth but for these billions and billions of years close to 99% of them have died out for a great number of reasons.

A status with such a melancholy tone can be traced back to a unfamiliar sizeable bird who once roamed the modern day Australian island Tasmania. The Tasmanian Emu, who is thought to be a subspecies of the modern Emu; and is thought to have been isolated from the mainland Emu during the Late Pleistocene. The Tasmanian Emu resembles the current animal very well both being Oviparous and …show more content…
That was until the Europeans arrived on the mainland around November 24,1642 which was leaded by a Dutch explorer named Abel Tasman; but the land did not become a settlement until the British established it in 1803.The newcomers did not affect the Emu at first, in the beginning years the Emu was still a thriving species reaching the thousands in population ; however near the 1830’s the Tasmanian Emu become an endangered species and just thirty years later in 1865 the last Tasmanian Emu was sighted adding it’s name upon the long list of extinct animals .The Emu was thought to have gone extinct from the result of a small land area, being hunted as a pest and having their habitat the grasslands set on fire in order to claim land for